Groom's Checklist pdf file only 1. Reserve the wedding site, whether a church or other facility. Good wedding sites are booked up 7 to 8 months in advance, so make this a priority. 2. Put together a wedding guest list and have your family make out theirs. You should note which guests you would like to have seated in the reserved pews of the church or of the wedding ceremony site. 3. Select the Best Man, Groomsmen, and ushers. Make sure that you are clear on whom is handling what responsibilities. Take some of the workload off of yourself and delegate it to people in your wedding party since it allows them to feel more apart of the wedding. 4. Select the Scottish Traditional Kilt Outfit for you, the Best Man, Groomsmen, ushers, and other key members of the wedding party. Next choose the kilt tartan you, the Best Man, Groomsmen, and ushers will be wearing. 5. Select gifts for your Best Man, Groomsmen and ushers that can be presented at either the wedding rehearsal or bachelor party. 6. Select a gift for your bride. This gift ideally should be something personal such as a fine piece of jewelry, a watch, a full day at the spa with the works, etc. 7. With your bride choose wedding rings. Have them engraved with your initials and wedding date on the inside of the rings. 8. With your bride, begin planning the honeymoon, with time enough for making reservation changes in the plans, or additions to the plans. 9. Make arrangements for the purchase of the bride's bouquet, the bride's going-away corsage, and corsages for both of the mothers and the closest female relatives on both sides. Not to forget, the boutonnieres for all the men in your wedding party, need to be selected and paid for. 10. Apply for the marriage license. The license should be obtained with ample time before the wedding date. The license should be given to the Best Man before the wedding, he will then present it after the wedding ceremony. 11. Set a date for the wedding rehearsal and notify all your attendants of the place and time. 12. Print out our Best Man's Checklist and the Master of Ceremonies Checklist (mackilts.com/kiltrental) provide them with a copy and any other resources they'll need. Provide the Best Man with the clergyman's fee and information on the logistics of the wedding, the honeymoon and travel plans. You may request that he Best Man pay the vendors on your behalf and help ensure that the reception facility is left in good order. Whatever arrangements you make, be sure that you review them with your Best Man at least a couple of days before the wedding date. 13. After the wedding ceremony, you and your bride need to sign the wedding certificate and have your Best Man ensure it is safely put away. 14. The day after the ceremony, send to the bride's parents a telegram thanking them for the wonderful wedding and reception. .